Best Vance Havner Quotes
- If you lack knowledge, go to school. If you lack wisdom, get on your knees. Christian
- Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though… Best
- Most people would not want to live where there are no churches but many people live as though there were no churches. Christian
- In other days people chose a church on the basis of their doctrinal convictions. Now, lacking doctrinal convictions, they choose for social reasons. Bases
- The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer… Been
- Satan is not fighting churches; he is joining them. He does more harm by sowing tares than by pulling up wheat. He accomplishes more by… Accomplish
- The preacher who jests and jokes with his people all week will soon find that he cannot stand in his pulpit on Sunday with power… All
- Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint. Christian
- One hour in heaven, and we shall be ashamed that we ever grumbled. Ashamed
- I remember when the Titanic sank in 1912, it was the ship that was supposed to be unsinkable. The only thing it ever did was… Aboard
- The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate. Boat
- A picture of Christ was hung in the back of a pulpit. When the minister rose to speak one Sunday morning, a little boy asked… Asked
- People used to blush when they were ashamed. Now they are ashamed if they blush. Modesty has disappeared and a brazen generation with no fear… Ashamed
- It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but… Acceptable
- More Bibles are bought and fewer read than any other book. Any
- If you see a Bible that is falling apart, it probably belongs to someone who isn't! Apart
- Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads; it never gets out through hands and feet and lips. Christian
- To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience. Argument
- If you are what you've always been, you are not a Christian. A Christian is a new creation. Been
- The detour is always rougher than the main road Christian
- A true preacher is best measured not by how many bouquets have been pinned on him but by how many brickbats have been pitched at… Been
- The tragedy of today is that the situation is desperate but the saints are not. Christian
- We are not going to move this world by criticism of it nor conformity to it, but by the combustion within it of lives ignited… Christian
- People get so used to the dark that they think it's growing brighter. It's possible to fraternize with unbelievers until false doctrine becomes less and… Becomes
- God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out. Christian